How intelligent are you?

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Compared to other users on this website, how intelligent do you think you are?

I'm just curious.

The majority of WP members:



CockneyRebel:

The bottom 20%, but it doesn't bother me.

Pretty thick

I'm of average intelligence. That's what the test I took a while back told me, so I believe it.

I took an IQ test with a professional last year.

The results showed that I have an IQ of 142.

That is higher than 99.7% of humanity.

I qualify for M.E.N.S.A.

It is labeled 'genius' on the IQ chart.

I am 13.

Not to brag,

Interestingly enough, it seems very well balanced. Usually in most environments, the majority of people would vote themselves to be in the top percentages.

This could be because Aspies are generally seen as very bright, and there is the assumption that people in this community are much smarter on average than people in real life.

i don't understand how the answers work in the poll. in which case, you have your answer

i voted in the top 50%.

actually, if this question had been asked years ago, i would have answered in the top 10%, so i guess i've gotten dumber over the years

There's people who are extremely intelligent on here, and some who are a little clueless. I think I fall right in between them.

I thought you were talking about the WP scale of intelligence. According to the bell curve I'm about average. 47-50%.

I'm not really sure where to get the IQ statistics to figure out what percentile I'm in, but I just went and did an IQ test and got 125.

i am not interested to engage in philosophical or political or mathematical debates on internet forums because they go on for many pages and i have no desire to deplete my energy trying to shoe horn my opinion into pages of posts where most participants are merely showcasing their knowledge.

when i was new on this site, i frequently addressed posts of the nature i detailed above, but i quickly learned that if i could not post links ("evidence please?") to eminent people's ideas that were concordant with my own, then my posts were ridiculed as uninformed speculation.

i am not really interested in politics because i live in my own world, and i am not interested in religion because no one will ever know whether god exists or not, so i rarely engaged in those threads, but there were mathematically oriented threads and threads which explored ideas concerning for example "the beginning of time" where i posted lengthy replies that were generated only from my own speculation, and they were lambasted because i offered my own opinion without "citations".

i remember complaining that all of the posts in a particular thread were simply copied and pasted from educational sites, and it was more like an "information war" rather than spontaneous consideration, and i was told that unless i had a degree in theoretical physics, i should not waste my energy compiling an answer because it was worthless.

they did not actually ponder what i was saying because they googled for things i said that could back me up, and when they found no similar ideas to mine in their search (to their relief), they felt justified in writing me off as a crude layman in an intellectual domain.

maybe my ideas may not have been effectual (but to me they were), but they simply canned my ideas because i was not qualified in their opinion to comment on the matter, and they rudely discarded my ideas, and then they continued to argue among themselves only based upon what they could find on the internet that had already been thought by eminent scientists.

i felt that they were simply disciples of their idols, and all they did was reword hypotheses that they could link to in order to authenticate their assertions.
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these days, i will only respond either in an inane way that is not serious to threads where someone else has already said what i would have said if i was serious, or in a serious way to threads where people ask about my personal experience of autistic traits where no one else has already said what i have to say.

if someone else has said what i would have said, i see no use in saying the same thing because it superfluous.

i think i am in the middle range of intelligence on this site, and i am disillusioned that i am ridiculed if i venture into posts that are snobbishly "owned" by those who see me as a mundane imposter into their intellectual campus.

mostly now, my posts are ignored because the other posters can not be bothered to spend the energy to even read what i say because they have their radars attuned to people who's contributions they consider more important.

it does not bother me however, because i do not think about WP before about 11 pm, and it is certainly not a contributor to my self image.

I don't know, but I've noticed most people's avatars on WP are kinda lame looking. Not sure if that means anything or not, but the person in question using a lame avatar probably thinks it looks good even though it doesn't.

I picked 70-80% cause I thought that meant higher intellegence (the poll has been badly configured).

I'd actually be in the top 20%.

Above average, according to the Mensa test. But having dyscalculia and not being able to generate pictures in my mind makes it pretty difficult to fit into the standard framework